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No. 401,661. Patented Apr. 16. 1889..

WITNEEISEE INVENT IFI,

PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE C. SEELY, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JAMES ARNOLD, OF SAME PLACE.

RECORD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,661, dated April16, 1889.

Application filed June 10, 1886. Renewed July 2, 1888. Serial No.278,881. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HORACE O. SEELY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inRecords, &c.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description ofthe invention, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a plan View of arecord with one of the supplemental leavespartially turned over. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a record.

My invention relates to registers, records, and other books in which oneindex, set of names, numbers, or other list of persons or things iskept, and opposite to which are set various items of information.

The object of my improvements is to economize space and save time inmaking entries by providing means whereby the duplication or repetitionof the lists on different pages may be avoided.

My invention consists in the combination, with a main sheet adapted toreceive a list of names, numbers, or other registry, of a set or seriesof supplemental leaves sewed or otherwise fastened to said main sheet insuch manner that each of said supplemental leaves may be brought intoregistration with the list on the main sheet, substantially ashereinafter described.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A represents a book or recordembodying my invention.

B is the main sheet, a designating the inner and b the outer edgethereof, which in practice would be the first sheet, and is preferablyruled or lined in such manner as to be adapted to have a list of names,0, or other like entry made upon it. Such list may, for

- example, be a list of scholars attending school,

and it is desired to have columns corresponding with the names in whichvarious items of information-such as marks for attendance,

conduct, studies, &c.*are to be set or entered. Heretofore it has beenthe practice in such cases to repeat the list of names on every page ofthe book, as the indicating-marks are put down at the various periods oftime or referring to difierent circumstances. This practice involved thelabor of writing the list of names on every page, and also involved theuse of a considerable amount of paper due to such repetition.

D represents a series of supplemental leaves, which are attached orfastened to or on the main sheet at one side of the center, as at (I,said supplementalleaves being of such width and so located that they maybe folded or turned upon the main sheet and broughtinto registration orline with the list thereon. To permit this folding there must be betweenthe list on the main sheet and the stitched or fastened edge of thesupplemental sheets a sufficient space left so that when thesupplemental sheets are turned the list will not be covered, but will beexposed. In practice this space may be used for the first series ofentries required in keeping the record, and the successive entries maybe made on the first and successive pages of the supplemental leaves, asthey are turned over for that purpose.

WVhat I claim as my invention is In a record or register, thecombination, with a main sheet adapted and designed to receive a list ofnames or other entries, of a series of supplemental folded sheetsattached or fastened to the main sheet near the outer 8o edge thereof,and adapted and designed to be successively turned over and to receiveentries referring to the list on the main sheet, substantially as shownand described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 85 have hereunto set my handthis 20th day of May, 1886.

HORACE C. SEELY.

Witnesses:

M. D. CoNNoLLY, R. DALE SPARHAWK.

